~wete mama prepare the mama pudding, by pounding cooked taros and [...]

Part of Speech	verb-object idiom
Morphology	~wete + mama

• • prepare the mama pudding, by pounding cooked taros and Canarium almonds in a bowl (monone) with a pestle

  Literally	pound pudding
  Encyclopedic Info	This dish is prepared for important social occasions.

  • • Example 2786:
      

      Li-wete mama adapa.

      They prepared the pudding.

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S20

Related entries

• Contains:
  • ~wete violently push a long, hard object into ‹s.o., s.th.›: pierce, spear, stab, pound+ / spear ‹fish+› / shoot ‹s.o., s.th.› with arrow / pound ‹s.o., s.th.› with the end of a long stick, or any similar implement / drive ‹digging stick, ekuo› into the ground, to soften it when planting tubers / dig out ‹swamp taro, vivilo› by driving a digging stick into the ground; hence harvest / pound ‹taros, almonds+› in a bowl, using a long and heavy pestle / grind ‹kava+› using a longish coral stone or a pestle / pin ‹clothes, leaves+› using a needle or a small pointed stick
• See also:
  • mama² k.o. traditional pudding, made of taros (jebute) and Canarium almonds (vongoro), and served in important social occasions